Filing-card.



No. 781,777. Y PATENTBD FEB. 7, 1905. I E. J. LBES. I

FILING CARD.

APPLIOATION FILED OCT. 27, 1904.

Attorney Patented February 7, 1905.

iiNlTED STATES PATENT @rrics,

ERNEST J. LEES, OF (iLllNVlLLli, OHIO.

FlLlNG-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,777, dated February '7, 1905.

Application filed October 27,1904. Serial No. 230,185.

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be it known that l, EuNns'rJ. LEES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Udenville, (Juyahoga county, Ohio, (post-office address No. 12 Colonial avenue, (:ilenville, ()hio,) have invented certain new and useful improvements in liiling-Uards, of which the following is a specification This invention, pertaining to improvements in cards to be filed, will be readily understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, which is a face view of my improved card.

In the use of the well-known card-indexes it is of high importance that the upper edges of the individual cards be smooth and that edges of the cards composing the group contained in a tray or drawer be substantially even in order that they may be conveniently lingered and in order that guide-cards may properly project above the cards. Much ad vertising is being done upon cards intended to be systematically filed, and the merits of the system have become so far recognized that many persons make provision in the way of special furniture for the filing of these cards in trays or drawers. In the carrying out of this general scheme it appears that two different sizes of cards have been adopted, one size being about an inch greater than the other in both dimensions. It follows that a party is likely to be receiving cards of the two sizes and that if all of them were filed in systematic order as a single system the varying sizes of the cards prevent their being readily fingered or provided with guide-cards. To

overcome this, some parties have provided two sets of receptacles, one for the small cards and the other for the large cards; but this, it will be manifest, breaks into the integrity of the system and calls for the searching of two distinctly different groups.

My present invention comprehends a card which by its peculiarities of construction is adapted to either of the two sizes of receptacles.

In the drawing, 1 indicates the general card, whose dimensions are to correspond with the larger of the two generally-established sizes;

2, its body or the portion which is to contain all of the data-matter which is to be preserved; I"), a detachable lower margin or the portion below the body: i, the detachable end margin or a portion.at the end of the body, the width of the portions 3 and i being such that when removed from the body they will leave the body of a size corresponding with the smaller established size for cards to be filed; 5, lines of perforations between the body portion of the margin portion of the card; 6, the headspace of the card at its upper edge to contain what may be termed the directory p0rtion of the matter upon the card or the title of the card under which it will be arranged in the system, and T a line upon the card separating the head-space of the card from the remainder of the body.

In the use of the improved card the matter for preservation will be printed or otherwise placed entirely upon the body 2 below the line T. One wishing to file such a card will properly title it in the head-space and will at once file it in case his trays or drawers are of the larger established size. If, however, his trays or drawers are of the smaller established size he will remove the margins 3 and r, thus leaving the card of the smaller established size. It will be observed that regardless of the size of the tray or drawer in which the card is to find its home the upper edge of the card is true and smooth and a group of the cards will have their upper edges substantially even and adapted for convenient lingering and for proper association with guidecards.

I claim as my invention In a filing-card, a card having exterior dimensions corresponding with a given size of receptacles for cards and having lines of perforations at right angles to each other dividing the card into margin portions, and a body portion having a head-space extending from end to end of the body.

l KN EST J. LENS.

Witnesses:

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